Electric Light OrchestraThe Move got the bright idea to mix classical music with rock, and The Electric Light Orchestra was born. But founder Roy Wood found other things to occupy his time, and by the second album Jeff Lynne had inherited the wheel. A penchant for The Beatles' post-Strawberry output popped up noticeably on the first and third albums, but ELO was fast supplanting the strings with Richard Tandy's sweeping synthesizers. "Showdown," an anomaly, would soon become the norm as subsequent singles ("Can't Get It Our Of My Head," "Evil Woman," "Strange Magic") revealed a commercial appetite for the band's pop/disco amalgam. Lynne hit his stride as a songwriter with A New World Record, followed by Out of the Blue and Discovery. At the time of their release, ELO may well have been the world's greatest pop act. However, as disco's fortunes waned, ELO's music lost its relevance; Time, released in 1981, seemed like a caricature of the band's original ideals. Jeff Lynne left the group following 1986's Balance of Power and ELO disbanded. In 1991, Electric Light Orchestra Part Two emerged from the ashes, led by original member Bev Bevan and featuring past members such as Kelly Groucutt and Mik Kaminski, serving more as an oldies act than a source of new music. Lynne, in the meantime, consummated his longstanding affection for The Beatles by joining George Harrison in The Travelling Wilburys. In 2001, Jeff Lynne released Zoom under the ELO moniker.